I enjoy Mythbusters but that is one thing that annoys me about it (and plenty of other Discovery/History/etc. shows) - they split the myths into separate segments, intertwine them, then waste quite a bit of time rehashing what they're trying to accomplish and what they've done so far.
A while back, I recorded a show on the history of the Great Wall off History Channel, and I found I couldn't watch it - the new facts trickled out at a rate of one every five minutes (it seemed). The three hour show probably could have been compressed to half an hour or less.
Every commuter rail/subway system in the US is partially funded by taxes. It's just too expensive otherwise. DC's Metro has constant problems with funding because they have no dedicated source, unlike most (all?) other US subway systems, so they're constantly being jerked around by the three local governments. For the NYC subway, see this article.
You aren't paying your professors anything. You're paying the school, and the school pays the prof. So, the professor is answerable to the school, not you, and the school's demands on that professor are not entirely in line with your needs. Remember that! Professors aren't hired because they're good teachers. It's a nice plus, yes, and most of the ones I had are good teachers, but that's not what gets them hired.
Either I wasn't clear or you misread it. I was giving an example of the US supporting a non-US solution, since the AC seemed to think the US always wanted its own way. The "bash the US" comment was aimed at the AC.
Really? I used to own an '87 Escort (granted a much smaller, lighter car) that didn't have power steering, and the only time I really noticed a large difference in everyday driving was in a tight parking lot where I had to turn the wheel, then move the car (instead of being able to turn the wheel while the car was moving).
My dad did have an Olds or something (early 90s era, I think) that occasionally would lose power steering on right turns. That was always fun. It was harder to turn when it happened but not so hard that it was nearly impossible to do it.
The reason is that this kept the 90 degree west meridian in the same place the the original. Guess where that is...
Tells you where the power and money was when the GPS system was set up.
First, the article you linked says nothing about why it was moved other than GPS was more accurate. Care to cite a source on your claim? There's someone in the comments saying it, but that's also not sourced.
Also, I love that you say that but ignore this, from the article you linked. This is about selecting Greenwich as the prime meridian back in the day:
Rival 1: Washington was a key competitor, but the US threw its weight behind Greenwich, taking it out of the race.
In my Impala, it's in the back window. It just looks like more lines on the defroster grid. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where it is on your Odyssey, too.
No, you can unfriend them. A friend and I experimented with it, and it's pretty neat how it works: I didn't receive any notice that she'd unfriended me; she just quietly disappeared off my list of friends. Then, a search for her on Facebook turned up nothing - she was invisible to me. It's a little creepy but probably the best way to do it. She was able to find me and re-friend me, though.
Ever see the slides the Thiokol engineers presented to show the risk of launching Challenger in cold weather? They did a poor job conveying their point. Even with the benefit of hindsight and knowing what to look for, it's hard to see what they were saying. I think that's the sort of thing Alamais is talking about.
This is more of a retroactive thing, I assume. If you work for the federal gov't, and cause an accident that's the result of you texting while driving on official time, you can be fired for conduct problems (and it's easy to remove people for conduct problems - it's performance problems that are difficult to deal with).
God, I hate those left exits and on-ramps. They're okay (not great) when driving a car, but when I'm driving my motorhome while towing a car, it's a huge PITA, not to mention irritating for everyone involved.
Is there anything stopping you installing your own camera?
Yes and no. Yes it is technically possible. But no, for several reasons. First, the time to do it isn't worth it. Second, maintaining it is going to take up more of my limited free time. Third, it might just be a bit too far over the edge toward insanity or something. Fourth, I just know that half the stuff I see will somehow be out of sight of the camera, which means I'll want more/better cameras, etc. Fifth, I really just don't want to spend the money doing it - I have much more pressing problems to deal with, and this would just divert resources (time and money) from those.
If the hypothetical site did allow contributions, I'd disallow stuff from any handheld video camera for exactly the reason you describe, and I think it'd be easy to tell which is which. Of course, I probably would have a new contribution every day (I see it on my commute all the time), so it's not like there would be a shortage of posts even if I were the only one contributing.
I'm with you (and the OP of this thread). I'd love to have a camera in the car that records what's happening in front of me so that when some jackass hits me. Someone backed into my car while it was parked a couple weeks ago and took off. $2000 worth of damage (including some used parts rather than new) and $250 out of my pocket for the deductible. You'd better believe I wish I had video of that incident, because not only would they be paying, they'd be getting a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident. In addition, maybe I could find out why they couldn't see a red car parked in a lot in broad daylight.
For a side project, I've sometimes considered creating an "aggressivedrivers.com" website or something that just shows video of some of the stupid shit I see people doing out on the road. But what would be the point? It's not like anything short of dying will stop those drivers.
This is pretty much my experience with FIOS, too. The two or three times I've measured it, I found I actually get just a bit more than what I pay for. Like you, uploading photos was where I noticed the biggest increase (especially after I got a sports TV package for my fiancee that included an upgrade to the FIOS speed).
I use Slackware and what you describe is one of my biggest complaints. Patrick will occasionally split packages into several parts, which is good for the long term, but it's pretty annoying when you discover it the hard way because some library you need wasn't installed when you did "upgradepkg".
However, once I get the Slackware systems set up, they just run and run, practically zero maintenance or fiddling required. That part I love.
Thanks for this info! I have a similar problem - the people who lived at my house before me apparently took off in the middle of the night and left all kinds of debt strewn around. I bought the house (they were renters), and the collection agencies started calling ME. As far as I can tell, the collection agencies find the old number is disconnected, then do a lookup to see what phone number is available at the house, and call it. Idiots - you'd think they could also look at the names and go, "Hey, these are different people!!" I've lived here over three years now (and the renters moved out many months before I bought the house - they may have even been gone for more than a year), and I still get calls for them perhaps once every 6 weeks or so (fortunately waaaay down from the 2-3 every week I got when I first moved in, but still annoying).
One time a lawyer left a long message on the machine for them trying to get them to call her before court the following day (where I assume she got a default judgement, since I doubt they knew or cared about it). I was sorely tempted to either call her and either (a) imitate them and call her nasty names, or (b) ask to join her lawsuit for the time I've spent dealing with their many collection calls.
The automated ones are the worst. If you ignore them they just keep calling. So I have to spend time calling them and carefully explaining how someone can actually move to a new residence. It can take a while for them to understand that concept.
Been there, done that. We had an even simpler solution, she paid half the bills, I paid the other half. If you don't have enough bills to split the total evenly, get some more bills. Once we moved in together, more bills seems to appear naturally, like spontaneously generated, just like children.
LOL. Nice. In our case, I've owned the house for over three years and she moved in a couple months ago, so all of the bills are in my name and probably will remain so until we actually get married, because we're too busy planning the wedding and honeymoon to worry about that.
Unfortunately for the banks, many individuals and businesses still do business via paper checks.
Well, then the banks can make it easier and cheaper to do transfers between accounts. My fiancee and I live together, and every month she writes a check to me to help offset the bills and all that. I certainly don't want to trust Paypal (or pay their fees), so our options are to write a check or hand over several hundred in cash.
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I enjoy Mythbusters but that is one thing that annoys me about it (and plenty of other Discovery/History/etc. shows) - they split the myths into separate segments, intertwine them, then waste quite a bit of time rehashing what they're trying to accomplish and what they've done so far.
A while back, I recorded a show on the history of the Great Wall off History Channel, and I found I couldn't watch it - the new facts trickled out at a rate of one every five minutes (it seemed). The three hour show probably could have been compressed to half an hour or less.
Every commuter rail/subway system in the US is partially funded by taxes. It's just too expensive otherwise. DC's Metro has constant problems with funding because they have no dedicated source, unlike most (all?) other US subway systems, so they're constantly being jerked around by the three local governments. For the NYC subway, see this article.
You aren't paying your professors anything. You're paying the school, and the school pays the prof. So, the professor is answerable to the school, not you, and the school's demands on that professor are not entirely in line with your needs. Remember that! Professors aren't hired because they're good teachers. It's a nice plus, yes, and most of the ones I had are good teachers, but that's not what gets them hired.
Either I wasn't clear or you misread it. I was giving an example of the US supporting a non-US solution, since the AC seemed to think the US always wanted its own way. The "bash the US" comment was aimed at the AC.
Fighter pilots get far more training than your average driver. And pay far better attention to what's going on around them.
Really? I used to own an '87 Escort (granted a much smaller, lighter car) that didn't have power steering, and the only time I really noticed a large difference in everyday driving was in a tight parking lot where I had to turn the wheel, then move the car (instead of being able to turn the wheel while the car was moving).
My dad did have an Olds or something (early 90s era, I think) that occasionally would lose power steering on right turns. That was always fun. It was harder to turn when it happened but not so hard that it was nearly impossible to do it.
The reason is that this kept the 90 degree west meridian in the same place the the original. Guess where that is...
Tells you where the power and money was when the GPS system was set up.
First, the article you linked says nothing about why it was moved other than GPS was more accurate. Care to cite a source on your claim? There's someone in the comments saying it, but that's also not sourced.
Also, I love that you say that but ignore this, from the article you linked. This is about selecting Greenwich as the prime meridian back in the day:
Rival 1: Washington was a key competitor, but the US threw its weight behind Greenwich, taking it out of the race.
Any chance to bash the US, eh?
I think Patrick said at the time that he was sick of people asking when he'd upgrade to "Linux 6". That still makes me chuckle.
In my Impala, it's in the back window. It just looks like more lines on the defroster grid. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where it is on your Odyssey, too.
No, you can unfriend them. A friend and I experimented with it, and it's pretty neat how it works: I didn't receive any notice that she'd unfriended me; she just quietly disappeared off my list of friends. Then, a search for her on Facebook turned up nothing - she was invisible to me. It's a little creepy but probably the best way to do it. She was able to find me and re-friend me, though.
Ever see the slides the Thiokol engineers presented to show the risk of launching Challenger in cold weather? They did a poor job conveying their point. Even with the benefit of hindsight and knowing what to look for, it's hard to see what they were saying. I think that's the sort of thing Alamais is talking about.
This is more of a retroactive thing, I assume. If you work for the federal gov't, and cause an accident that's the result of you texting while driving on official time, you can be fired for conduct problems (and it's easy to remove people for conduct problems - it's performance problems that are difficult to deal with).
God, I hate those left exits and on-ramps. They're okay (not great) when driving a car, but when I'm driving my motorhome while towing a car, it's a huge PITA, not to mention irritating for everyone involved.
Is there anything stopping you installing your own camera?
Yes and no. Yes it is technically possible. But no, for several reasons. First, the time to do it isn't worth it. Second, maintaining it is going to take up more of my limited free time. Third, it might just be a bit too far over the edge toward insanity or something. Fourth, I just know that half the stuff I see will somehow be out of sight of the camera, which means I'll want more/better cameras, etc. Fifth, I really just don't want to spend the money doing it - I have much more pressing problems to deal with, and this would just divert resources (time and money) from those.
If the hypothetical site did allow contributions, I'd disallow stuff from any handheld video camera for exactly the reason you describe, and I think it'd be easy to tell which is which. Of course, I probably would have a new contribution every day (I see it on my commute all the time), so it's not like there would be a shortage of posts even if I were the only one contributing.
lol - thanks. I needed that!
The question is: useful to who? Chances are your cam gets you in bigger trouble than it could ever save you from.
How so?
I must not be awake yet. Obviously that should be, "...so that when some jackass hits me, I have it recorded."
I'm with you (and the OP of this thread). I'd love to have a camera in the car that records what's happening in front of me so that when some jackass hits me. Someone backed into my car while it was parked a couple weeks ago and took off. $2000 worth of damage (including some used parts rather than new) and $250 out of my pocket for the deductible. You'd better believe I wish I had video of that incident, because not only would they be paying, they'd be getting a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident. In addition, maybe I could find out why they couldn't see a red car parked in a lot in broad daylight.
For a side project, I've sometimes considered creating an "aggressivedrivers.com" website or something that just shows video of some of the stupid shit I see people doing out on the road. But what would be the point? It's not like anything short of dying will stop those drivers.
This is pretty much my experience with FIOS, too. The two or three times I've measured it, I found I actually get just a bit more than what I pay for. Like you, uploading photos was where I noticed the biggest increase (especially after I got a sports TV package for my fiancee that included an upgrade to the FIOS speed).
I use Slackware and what you describe is one of my biggest complaints. Patrick will occasionally split packages into several parts, which is good for the long term, but it's pretty annoying when you discover it the hard way because some library you need wasn't installed when you did "upgradepkg".
However, once I get the Slackware systems set up, they just run and run, practically zero maintenance or fiddling required. That part I love.
One time a lawyer left a long message on the machine for them trying to get them to call her before court the following day (where I assume she got a default judgement, since I doubt they knew or cared about it). I was sorely tempted to either call her and either (a) imitate them and call her nasty names, or (b) ask to join her lawsuit for the time I've spent dealing with their many collection calls.
The automated ones are the worst. If you ignore them they just keep calling. So I have to spend time calling them and carefully explaining how someone can actually move to a new residence. It can take a while for them to understand that concept.
Been there, done that. We had an even simpler solution, she paid half the bills, I paid the other half. If you don't have enough bills to split the total evenly, get some more bills. Once we moved in together, more bills seems to appear naturally, like spontaneously generated, just like children.
LOL. Nice. In our case, I've owned the house for over three years and she moved in a couple months ago, so all of the bills are in my name and probably will remain so until we actually get married, because we're too busy planning the wedding and honeymoon to worry about that.
Unfortunately for the banks, many individuals and businesses still do business via paper checks.
Well, then the banks can make it easier and cheaper to do transfers between accounts. My fiancee and I live together, and every month she writes a check to me to help offset the bills and all that. I certainly don't want to trust Paypal (or pay their fees), so our options are to write a check or hand over several hundred in cash.
Half the joke.